Better Late Than Never.....Right?

Dr. Kleinpeter, Olivia, and Daddy

Olivia is here!! She made her debut on Friday, October 15th at 11:08am. She weighed in at 7lbs., 1.8oz, and she was 20 inches long. When they first showed her to me, I immediately said, "She looks just like Daniel!" But, I will let you be the judge.

Being as this was a planned C-section, there is no interesting labor story to tell. Everything went very well, and we were so happy to come home! Daniel went to stay with Gigi and Poppy for a few days so we could have some time to adjust to having little Olivia around. And Grandma came to stay with us to help out since I had strict instructions to take it easy, not lift anything heavier than the baby, and rest as much as possible...not to mention I was still on pain meds. It was such a blessing to have her here helping with laundry, cleaning, cooking, etc. We are so thankful to have this sweet baby girl as a part of our family!

Daniel and "HIS" Golden Girls

Last Saturday, Daniel had the opportunity to have his picture taken with a few of the LSU Golden Girls. I have to say, I was a bit nervous because you never know how Daniel will react to strangers. Most of the time he will yell, "NO!" and look away and hide his face, but there a precious few times where he will smile and converse and just be incredibly sweet. Luckily, this was one of those times. He walked right up to those girls with a huge grin on his face and started chatting them up...he even smiled for the picture! Hallelujah!!! I think he was as taken with them as they were with him...he was sad to leave. Notice he is holding his Mike the Tiger in the picture. Afterwards, he kept asking to look at the picture with "his" Golden Girls!

Wordless Wednesday and a Daniel-ism

The "baby bump" at 29 weeks.

Today, while on the way to Wal-Mart, Daniel stated that we needed to get a toy for Olivia. He then proceeded to tell us that Olivia wanted Diesel 10 (one of the engines from Thomas and Friends). If he has this kind of conniving logic already, I can only imagine what is in store for the future...

Win a Silhouette!!

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Wordless Wednesday

Couldn't Have Said It Better....

I have been feeling like this a lot lately, but couldn't put it into words...so I won't even try!

Check out this post:

http://wendingourwayhome.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-being-on-hiatus.html

Water Baby

My little man is becoming a regular water baby. Friday night, we went to my sister's house and she bought a little alligator pool for Daniel. He was so excited when she added the bubbles that he said, "This is a cool pool!" When it was time to get out, I stripped him down to dry him off when he decided he wasn't finished yet...thus the next picture. I have more pictures (unsuitable for web publication) that will be used as blackmail when he starts dating! :-)

This last picture is from our ward Pioneer Day activity. Daniel played in the water from the time we got there until the time we left. I forgot my camera, so my friend Janel sent me some pictures she took. Daniel is the one on the back of the alligator with his head turned away. He had so much fun that he didn't want to leave, even when they turned off the water!

On another note, Daniel has gotten to where he likes to be rocked before going to sleep at night. At first I thought it was a nuisance because he used to be so good about going to bed on his own.
But tonight, while I was rocking him and listening to his primary music, I thought to myself, "It doesn't get any better than this." Pretty soon he won't want me to rock him anymore, so I am just going to enjoy it while it lasts. I love my sweet boy!!!